Hampshire’s Sam Northeast continues to haunt Kent

Northeast dives to make his ground during his unbeaten 105 from 95 ballsJORDAN MANSFIELD/GETTY IMAGES

After being booed by Kent supporters at Lord’s last summer, when Hampshire won the Royal London One-Day Cup on a flaming final day of June, you suspect that Sam Northeast will now always find an even harder edge to his performances when he plays against his former club.

Yesterday, indeed, he followed up the 75 he made on that occasion with a beautifully paced innings of 105 not out from 95 balls as Hampshire once more prevailed in 50-over combat.

Northeast, 29, who captained Kent for the best part of the last three of his 11 seasons with his native county before an acrimonious departure at the end of the 2017 season, completed his fourth List A hundred from the penultimate ball of Hampshire’s innings…

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